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...deceptively jolly, roly-poly fellow, got his latest beat by his usual hard digging, plus a nose for news which sniffed something worth digging for. While skimming through the records of office calls of RFC officials, he ran across the names of Mrs. Bratten and Shaver. The references sounded harmless, but why were they mentioned at all? When Steele discovered that at the time of the visits, Shaver was listed as an associate in Chase & Williams, a Washington law firm, he thought he had something...
...story on Page One of Hearst's San Francisco Call-Bulletin looked as harmless as a puppy: the Stanford Research Institute wanted to rent ten acres of city-owned land to train Army dogs in spotting land mines...
White House reporters promptly protested. They feared that bureaucrats would use the "classified" stamp to hide boners, bottle up many an important (though militarily harmless) story that should be told. What, asked one newsman, would happen if a bureaucrat refused to release information which obviously had no connection with the nation's safety? Replied Presidential Press Secretary Joseph Short: "I dont want to stick my neck out-but, come to me." But with 1,500 reporters in Washington, that was hardly a solution...
Fledgling Years. Even the shrewd dismissed it as a relatively harmless propaganda device. It was not. The peace propaganda campaign was a coldly calculated master plan to sabotage the West's efforts to restore the world's free economies and to defend itself...
...power makes it possible to get fresh water from the ocean. This happened about 1985, and turned deserts that lay near the sea into garden spots. ¶ The threat of world overpopulation has been diminished not only by more food but by improved birth control methods, especially "cheap and harmless antifertility components to be added as one saw fit to the diet." The attitude of religious leaders on this subject will slowly change "without any diminution of religious feeling...